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Full circle for last British Rail train to Wareham passenger returning as driver

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Alex Bestwick

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3 April 2023

A Swanage Railway volunteer who travelled on the last British Rail train from Swanage to Wareham as a child in 1972 will be the conductor driver on the first Swanage Railway passenger train into Wareham using the heritage line’s 1950s diesel train.
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UK Rail services to unify under state-owned body, Great British Railways

by

Shannon Butcher

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20 May 2021

The creation of a new public sector body to oversee Britain’s railways will simplify a system that is “too complicated”, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.
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Full circle for last British Rail train to Wareham passenger returning as driver

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